OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to determine whether monitoring of respiratory changes in aortic blood flow velocity, recorded by esophageal Doppler, could be used to detect changes in volume depletion. DESIGN: Animal study. ANIMALS AND INTERVENTIONS: After general anesthesia and tracheotomy, ten New Zealand female rabbits, weighing 4-4.5 kg were studied under mechanical ventilation at a fixed tidal volume; during this time 5-ml blood samples were withdrawn (in increments up to a total of 30 ml) and then retransfused. MEASUREMENTS AND RESULTS: At each step, systolic (SBP), diastolic (DBP), pulse (PP) pressures and maximum descending aortic blood flow (V) were recorded. Respiratory changes of V (DeltaV), SBP (DeltaSBP) and PP (DeltaPP) were calculated as the difference of maximal and minimal values divided by their respective means and expressed as a percentage. The amount of blood withdrawn correlated negatively with SBP, DBP, PP and V and positively with DeltaSBP, DeltaPP and DeltaV. Among these parameters, DeltaV correlated best with the amount of blood withdrawn ( r=0.89, p<0.001) and it was the most accurate index of volume depletion. CONCLUSION: Monitoring of the respiratory variation in V, calculated by esophageal Doppler technique, seems to be a highly accurate index of blood volume depletion and restitution.
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to determine whether monitoring of respiratory changes in aortic blood flow velocity, recorded by esophageal Doppler, could be used to detect changes in volume depletion. DESIGN: Animal study. ANIMALS AND INTERVENTIONS: After general anesthesia and tracheotomy, ten New Zealand female rabbits, weighing 4-4.5 kg were studied under mechanical ventilation at a fixed tidal volume; during this time 5-ml blood samples were withdrawn (in increments up to a total of 30 ml) and then retransfused. MEASUREMENTS AND RESULTS: At each step, systolic (SBP), diastolic (DBP), pulse (PP) pressures and maximum descending aortic blood flow (V) were recorded. Respiratory changes of V (DeltaV), SBP (DeltaSBP) and PP (DeltaPP) were calculated as the difference of maximal and minimal values divided by their respective means and expressed as a percentage. The amount of blood withdrawn correlated negatively with SBP, DBP, PP and V and positively with DeltaSBP, DeltaPP and DeltaV. Among these parameters, DeltaV correlated best with the amount of blood withdrawn ( r=0.89, p<0.001) and it was the most accurate index of volume depletion. CONCLUSION: Monitoring of the respiratory variation in V, calculated by esophageal Doppler technique, seems to be a highly accurate index of blood volume depletion and restitution.
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